Energy consumption is a major and costly problem in data centers. A large fraction of this energy goes to powering idle machines that are not doing any useful work. We identify tw...
Andrew Krioukov, Prashanth Mohan, Sara Alspaugh, L...
This paper addresses the issue of fault-tolerance in applications that make use of network storage. A network abstraction called the Network Storage Stack is presented, along with...
Scott Atchley, Stephen Soltesz, James S. Plank, Mi...
Crash and omission failures are common in service providers: a disk can break down or a link can fail anytime. In addition, the probability of a node failure increases with the num...
Today’s Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies such as Ajax, Flex, or Silverlight, are designed around the client-server paradigm and cannot easily take advantage of repli...
This paper describes how we manage the interaction between different heterogeneous web services through choreographies within IRS-III. IRS-III is a framework and platform for deve...